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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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